CVE-2022-38020: Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
High (CVSS 7.3)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Category
Elevation of Privilege
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2022-Sep
Released
2022-09-13
EPSS Score
2.19% (percentile: 84.4%)

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do? The user would have be enticed to open a malicious file in a directory. Users should never open anything that they do not know or trust to be safe. What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code in the context of another Visual Studio Code user on the vulnerable system.

Affected Products (1)

Developer Tools

  • Visual Studio Code

Security Updates (1)

Acknowledgments

<a href="https://github.com/ycdxsb">ycdxsb</a> with <a href="https://www.iie.ac.cn/">VARAS@IIE</a>

Revision History

  • 2022-09-13: Information published.